Adobe Photoshop Advanced - course outline

This one day course can be booked in Bristol only according to our course schedule, or alternatively you can book a trainer to visit you. Contact us for more details!

Adobe Photoshop CS

Advanced Level

Photoshop is so much more than an image-editor: its layers, channels, paths and adjustments, combined with actions and histories, make it a veritable power tool for all those dealing with photographic imagery. From enhancements to special effects, the possibilities are limited only by your imagination.

Useful to you if:

• you need to produce professional-standard enhanced retouching, repairs, or complex photographic effects.

Before the course, you should:

• be using Photoshop regularly and confidently;
• be using layers, paths and channels with ease;
• be familiar with shortcuts, filters and the main palettes and menubar options.

At the end of the day’s course you will:

• have produced a complex layered file, special typographic effects, and a photo-montage with cloning;
• be armed with advanced tips on how to improve workflow;
• be confident using actions, masks, and adjustment layers;
• be aware of integration issues between this and other software;
• know some expert-user keyboard shortcuts.

Course contents (may vary slightly):

Fundamentals recap

• Title bar window spec.s
• Colour wheel, colour channels
• Histograms, modes, colour management
• CMYK-RGB conversion: issues
• System requirements, scratch disks
• Palette management

Tools and Palettes

• Options, browsing
• Vector tools

Paths and selections

• Cutouts, considerations, paths to selections
• Multiple path export, channel - path - export
• Selections: modifying, transforming, colour range, variations
• Alpha channel selections and combinations
• Bump maps, masks, calculations
• Perspective straightening

Colour conversion

• Colour mode conversion, gamut warnings (view)
• Colour sampler; info palette
• Adding to swatches
• Specials; procedure for 5th colours

Layers

• Layer effects, layer modes, layer styles
• Changing order
• Masking adjustments

Adjustments

• Levels, curves, adjustment layers
• Shadow/highlight, histogram
• Correcting colour casts; variations (parameters)
• Spot colours, duotone specifics, EPS and DCS
• Info palette, colour sampler

Restorative work

• Blur/gaussian blur (web + focal considerations)
• Noise: dust and scratches, sharpen/unsharp mask
• Channel separations
• High pass, blending options

Simple effects

• Photographic edges, neon type, photo-montage
• Layer modes, styles
• Realistic reflections, shadows
• Plug-ins, filters
• Posterisation, solarisation, Inverting
• Brush effects, history brush
• 3d, filters, plug-ins
• Distortion warps

Resolution

• Print requirements vs web requirements, JPG standards, PNGs etc
• Pixel dimensions
• Canvas size, crop tool specifics

Workflow

• Quick colour selection
• Drag-dropping multiple layer, folders and layers, position on paste
• Best formats, optimising for web: 1-4 up, droplets
• Actions: recording, saving, setting up batch process

Saving

• Save options, file formats for inDesign, web etc
• Placing in Illustrator
• Archiving, printing
• Keyboard shortcuts

Project achievements:

• Complex layered files
• Special typographic effects
• Photo-montage

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